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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Peach Cobbler” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator ask Not-Daniel if he thought about after they had made love in her car?
(a) Other women.
(b) His children.
(c) One of their mother's dying.
(d) His wife.

2. What does Caroletta make for Eula for her 31st birthday dinner?
(a) Potato salad.
(b) Baked chicken.
(c) Gumbo.
(d) A casserole.

3. What grade were Eula and her friend in when they first met?
(a) 2nd.
(b) 5th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 8th.

4. What holiday was it when Renee was disappointed her father did not attend church with them as he had promised in "Dear Sister"?
(a) Father’s Day.
(b) Mother’s Day.
(c) Christmas Day.
(d) Easter.

5. What does the little girl in “Peach Cobbler” see through her window as she walks home from school one Monday?
(a) The pastor hitting her mother.
(b) Her mother crying.
(c) Her mother with a man she had never seen.
(d) Her mother and the pastor having sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the narrator writing the letter in “Dear Sister”?

2. To whom is the narrator of “Dear Sister” writing at the start of the short story?

3. What do the woman and Not-Daniel have in common?

4. What does the narrator learn not to ask her mother about by the time she is six in “Peach Cobbler”?

5. What day of the week does the girl in “Peach Cobbler” begin making peach cobbler while her mother drinks?

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